Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 08:38:30 -0600 (CST) From: Alec Kloss <alec@d2si.com> To: cheese@websource.com.au Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Buggy (?) 3C509 Message-ID: <199702231438.IAA02270@d2si.com> In-Reply-To: <199702222316.KAA24058@bbq.websource.com.au> from Mark Cheeseman at "Feb 23, 97 10:16:30 am"
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Mark Cheeseman is responsible for: > I'm considering changing the NICs in a few of our machines from > NE2000 clones to 3C509s, but a few of the docs on www.freebsd.org and > LINT note that the ep driver is 'buggy'. > > Can somebody shed any light on specifics (or indeed, if the bugs are > still there)? > > I need to increase Ethernet throughput on these machines, and thought > I'd try the '509s since I have a few ot them. Suggestions for other > quick ISA cards are also welcome, but I'd like to use the 509 if > possible. > > Thanks, > mark > I tried to use one of those guys for a while; only about 5-10% of ICMP Ping packets made it. I tried to install via NFS with this card from another machine on our network and I got transfer rates of about 1KB/sec., so I used a null modem cable instead, which was at least twice as fast. I then went out and bought a cheepo NE2000-compatible PCI card which works great and cost about 40% less than the 3Com ISA card. I think they may be replacing or fixing the driver for the 2.2-RELEASE, but I have no proof of that.
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